Archive for December, 2008
Small Vases
December 22, 2008
Making floral arrangements in small vases is a wonderful way to enhance your dinner table and party events. Small vases enable you to use a limited amount of flowers while still adding a nice effect to your table design. They are small enough that they don’t interfere with the view of your guests at the dinner table as you are eating. Proportion and scale are added to their minimal size by punching up the number of vases in the overall arrangement display. The vases shown here were purchased through the Wisteria catalog and at the Pier 1 store. This particular theme was done for…
READ MOREPantone picks yellow as their color forecast for 2009
December 9, 2008
Last year it was blue iris and now Pantone, the color forecaster, has chosen the complementary color mimosa yellow as the 2009 color of the year.…
READ MOREHoliday Decorating Front Door Contest In Old Town Alexandria
December 6, 2008
The Old Town Alexandria front-door contest has been held for at least the past 35 Decembers. Yet it still manages to be one of the biggest secrets in town. This is a display from one of the front doors in the contest. Opportunity Is Knocking In Old Town Alexandria…
READ MOREColors of Home
December 5, 2008
“The best ideas are simple,” says Stephen Drucker, House Beautiful’s editor in chief. The library of hues comes from the magazine’s popular paint column, launched by Drucker in 2006. “Every month we come up with a problem, and we call between eight and 12 designers and say, ‘Tell us what paint color you would use to solve this problem,’ ” he says.
You’ll find Kelly Wearstler’s favorite ceiling paint (Pratt & Lambert’s Seed Pearl) and…
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